Do you eat alone? The French don't. Related: One of my hopes for the New Year is to have more dinner parties and go out to eat with others! For my 30th we went out to dinner with two other couples and it was such a rare and pleasurable experience.

I really believe that magazines across the board that are aimed at a female readership (celebrity, teen, women's, fitness, etc.) are hurting us as women and setting back the cause of feminism. Lena Dunham often makes me smile when talking about feminism and body image, and I absolutely LOVE her un-touched-up legs on the cover of Glamour. Guess what? We all have cellulite. If you don't, you are either a) male b) a child or c) from Mars. It's about time magazine covers represent and respect their readers! Bravo Lena and Glamour. I'm not a magazine reader, but I'm still a woman, so this made my day.

I read this moving article during the Holidays and kept thinking about it. "In his obedience, Joseph demonstrated what his other son would later
call “pure and undefiled” religion, the kind that cares for the
fatherless and the abandoned (James 1:27)"

I sported this up-do a lot these holidays! With my short, blunt hair I find I don't really love it unless I have the right product (dry shampoo, texture), and my trusty curling iron, both of which I was often without while traveling over the holidays. So pinning it up was easy and fun.